EUROPEAN PATENT ORGANISATION
Albania accedes to the London Agreement
On 31 May 2013, Albania deposited its instrument of accession to the Agreement of 17 October 2000 on the application of Article 65 EPC ("London Agreement", see OJ EPO 2001, 549). Under its Article 6(2), the agreement thus enters into force for Albania as 19th contracting state on 1 September 2013.
Albania has not adopted provisions pursuant to Article 65(1) EPC. Therefore, neither a translation of the claims nor of the patent specification of the European patent granted for Albania is to be supplied.
More information on the London Agreement is available on the EPO website (www.epo.org).